Horgenglarus is a small old Swiss furniture factory. It is Swiss oldest furniture factory. It bends beech and oak for its chairs, but rather than ready made rods like Thonet it steam bends solid logs and after the bending carves out the chair parts like for this Klio Chair which combines classic chair making with … Continue reading "Klio 3-350 by Studio Hannes Wettstein – 2018 IMM Cologne 06"
Seen at the Cassina Stand at IMM Cologne: The 570 Gender by Patricia Urquiola. In the past I have complained about the fact her web presence was not up to her level as a star designers, but nowadays her website is more up to her level. This lady couldn’t withstand a soft touch of the … Continue reading "570 Gender Lounge Chair by Patricia Urquiola – 2018 IMM Cologne 05"
Designer Lucie Koldova has been invited by the IMM Cologne organisation to create Das Haus, a special exhibition with her view on the future of furniture. She has collaborated with TON CZ, as a successor of one of the original Thonet factories well versed to create new forms of bentwood furniture. From this collaboration originated … Continue reading "Chip Chair by Lucie Koldova – 2018 IMM Cologne 04"
Moai Lounge Chair Is a design from Philip Bro Ludvigsen of 2016 for Softline DK. Philip Bro Ludvigsen was born in Australia in 1962 and educated at the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design. He founded his own design studio in Copenhagen and in his short career, he has already designed … Continue reading "Moai Lounge Chair by Philip Bro Ludvigsen – 2018 IMM Cologne 03"
Starting my series of posts about me visiting Imm Cologne 2018 could be worse than with the Ron Arad designed Europa Chair. The reason is Draenert celebrates its 50ieth Anniversary while displaying this chair that they produced and which is in the collection of various musea. Draenert was founded in 1968 by Karin and Dr. … Continue reading "Europa by Ron Arad – 2018 IMM Cologne 02"